T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes 2024
Karen McCarthy Woolf – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Karen McCarthy Woolf on her book Top Doll. Top Doll took me the best part of a decade to complete, so…
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Carl Phillips – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Carl Phillips on his collection Scattered Snows, to the North. Collecting Fragments, Getting Lost… How do I write, what is my…
Carl Phillips
Hannah Copley – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Hannah Copley on her collection Lapwing. I wrote the poems that would become Lapwing over a period of about six years,…
Hannah Copley
Helen Farish – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Helen Farish on her collection The Penny Dropping. Patience… When thinking about the genesis of The Penny Dropping, I remembered a…
Helen Farish
Gustav Parker Hibbett – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Gustav Parker Hibbett on their collection High Jump as Icarus Story. Sense of Self I spent years waiting for someone else…
Gustav Parker Hibbett
Rachel Mann – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Rachel Mann on her collection Eleanor Among the Saints. My Writerly Practice? I write to figure out what I want to…
Rachel Mann
Katrina Porteous – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Katrina Porteous on her collection Rhizodont. To an Unknown Poet… I feel rather shy about passing on ‘writing techniques and tips’….
Katrina Porteous
Raymond Antrobus – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Raymond Antrobus on his collection Signs, Music. I started writing Signs, Music the week I was told I was going to…
Raymond Antrobus